This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wYRBAIB/228.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, would seem that we're cousins. My grandfather was David Richard, son of Benjamin F. and "Eliza" Davis Teal. Thomas Benjamin and David Richard were brothers. I hadn't connected William Columbus and Isabella McRae Teal to Dale County AL but have them in Barber County AL. He and Isabella are listed on pages 210 and 211 in, "Early Settlers of Barbaour County, Alabama", Volumes I & II, copyright 1979 by The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. and complied by Marie Godfrey, published by Southern Historical Press, Inc. I have quite a bit of data that others have shared but have a real brickwall going beyond William. Believe he may have had a brother named Allen but unproven. Glad to hear from you. Look forward to talking to you, maybe we can help each other. donna in TX